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Last week it manfully did. In a letter to the U.S.-owned Standard-Vacuum Oil Co., India's government promised to change its ways and its laws, persuaded Standard-Vacuum to build a $35 million refinery near Bombay. Specifically, the government would scrap the law that Indians must own 51% of the stock of a foreign company. It would give unbreakable guarantees against nationalization for 25 years at least. The refinery will be allowed to import crude oil free of duty, and will get tariff protection...
Germany's youth resents the 1945 Potsdam agreement for splitting the country in two, Wein said, and this feeling is played upon by the Russians whenever possible. The result is "a vacuum in self-confidence and confidence in others...
Last week the research ship Albatross of the Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institute returned from a 22,000-mile Atlantic cruise with new information about the Gulf Stream obtained by a gadget called the Geomagnetic Electrokinetograph. GEK is a steel box full of vacuum tubes which analyzes electrical information from two electrodes trailed behind the ship. When the ship is swung 90° in one direction and then 180° in the other direction, the electrodes interact with the earth's magnetic field and so measure the motion of the water in relation to the sea's bottom...
Secretly, Groggle resents modern woman as a parasite who leads a push-button life of leisure while he slaves over a hot desk. "Actually, every laborsaving device of the past century has added to women's work ... A man invents a vacuum cleaner and ... a co-conspirator popularizes Venetian blinds, so there will be something else for the vacuum cleaner to do in a jiffy. A man turns out a simple little mechanism to make melon balls, and it's no longer comme il faut to toss a plain hunk of melon into a fruit salad...
Marriage Revealed. H. Earl Hoover, 60, Chicago vacuum cleaner magnate; and Miriam Ulbinen, 38, his housekeeper; he for the third time; on Oct. 2, in Denver. Divorced two months ago, Hoover announced that the thought of remarrying occurred to him "on the spur of the moment" while he was on a business trip, and that he called up his housekeeper and asked her to fly to Denver for a wedding...